Science unit 7 test

Question 1

developed the V-2 rocket

Answer 1

Wernher von Braun

Question 2

received the first patent for rocket technology G. pioneer of rocketry

Answer 2

Goddard

Question 3

first to study rockets for spaceflight

Answer 3

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Question 4

first American in space when he rode the Mercury capsule for 15 minutes

Answer 4

Alan Shepard Jr.

Question 5

pioneer of rocketry

Answer 5

Hermann Oberth

Question 6

first human in space

Answer 6

Yuri Gagarin

Question 7

first American to orbit Earth

Answer 7

John Glenn Jr.

Question 8

The first NASA program with human space flight was Project _____.

Answer 8

Mercury